Fishermen cuts great hammerhead shark caught on offshore commercial longline - Brazil

Thresher shark packed for shipment, Alopias sp., Nanfang'ao fish market - Suao, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)

These fins drying on the ground are only a few dozen of the thousands of fins drying and stacked up for sale nearby.

Shark fins are expensive commodities in asian culture, but the fins are far more valuable on a living shark maintaining a healthy ocean.

The shark fin industry removes 100 million sharks every year for soup, and more fins come from costa rica than any nation in the western hemisphere.

Any and all sharks are killed for soup, even the juveniles. These fins are so small it will take many more sharks to fill a bowl of soup.